Solid Edge Electrical Design

Overcome Electrical Design Challenges Early in the Design Cycle

For manufacturers to meet market demands and maintain the level of quality customers expect, they need to understand how best to integrate the mechanical, electrical and electronic aspects of their design. Solid Edge electrical design software was developed to satisfy the requirements of companies where ease of use and value are as important as functionality.

Wiring Design

Without the proper contextual information, the merging of wiring and mechanical data can be especially problematic. This causes synchronisation issues, increasing the risk of error and time to market.

SOLUTION

Integrated design processes enable data to flow automatically between the mechanical and electrical domains, allowing more parts of the process to be automated and optimizing the design.

BENEFITS

Integrated design processes enable data to flow automatically between the mechanical and electrical domains, allowing more parts of the process to be automated and optimizing the design.

Harness Design

CHALLENGE

Wire harness design is still a time-consuming, error prone, manual process. Without a coordinated design flow, integration efforts must rely on access to physical hardware late in the design cycle.

SOLUTION

New design and manufacturing capabilities allow users to produce a wire harness directly from assembly models, eliminating the need to build a physical prototype before producing the wire harness.

BENEFITS

Solid Edge Harness Design automates many harness development tasks including part selection, decomposition of harnesses into buildable harnesses and the creation of manufacturing reports.

PCB Design

CHALLENGE

PCB designs, mechanical enclosures, and related components need to fit, and be correctly designed the first time to eliminate re-spins, get designs to market more quickly and minimise costs.

SOLUTION

Sharing 3D representations allows visualisation of a design and detection of potential problems earlier. This moves validation of manufacturing and electrical data earlier into the design cycle.

BENEFITS

Solid Edge PCB Design speeds development with communication of design changes and automated review and approval processes between the electronics and mechanical domains.

MCAD-ECAD Collaboration

CHALLENGE

Electrical and mechanical disciplines have traditionally been separated. When working in different environments, it can be difficult to communicate, introducing significant friction and errors in the process.

SOLUTION

Collaboration is recognised as an enabler for increasing productivity. With modern CAD tools and intelligent software, users are able to synchronise data and collaborate between domains.

BENEFITS

An efficient and effective ECAD-MCAD collaborative process provides increased productivity by enabling what-if scenarios and allows engineers to co-design in their native environments.